Ferns

Growing Ferns

For decorating your home indoors, making it feel cool, woodsy, and rich, softening stark, harsh architectural lines, or unifying a decorative scheme—nothing rivals the beauty of graceful, green ferns.  Here

Ever Grow Pocket-size Ferns

Many dwarf ferns seem to have been fashioned especially for rock pockets. They are the loveliest of choice plants in size and their ability to serve so appealingly in softening

How To Succeed With Ferns

Ferns of one kind or another can be grown in practically every situation in the modern home except perhaps in the sunniest windows. This is because, in their native habitats,

Cool, Green Ferns

Green Ferns

The hot, muggy days of August are good days to lie in hammocks and turn our thoughts to cool green ferns. And September is a good time to move ferns

Lazy Ferns For A Garden Cool

Lazy Ferns

Under the glaring sun of midsummer, what could be more cooling than a walk down a shaded path banked by the delicate tracery of ferns?  They seem to dispel the

When Was Phyllitis Scolopendrium Discovered?

Rare Fern

Excitement ran high in botanical circles of Michigan following the recent discovery here of one of America’s rarest plants, Hart’s tongue fern (Phyllitis scolopendrium).  This plant has simple, lanceolate fronds,

Ferns In A South Window

Window Fern

Ferns seem to me to be in the neglected bracket, at least when considered as house plants. These few words, with the pictures, will, I hope, serve to remove them

Two Strange Ferns

two strange ferns

While I like all ferns—they remind me of cool, shady woodland dells—I think my favorites are the two strange ferns – the showy hart’s-tongue and the staghorn. Hart’s-Tongue Fern Hart’s-tongue